If it’s for our eternal goodness, yes!!!
Am I being too harsh? Some would think so. They might even think I have
no authority whatsoever to be saying the things I say when I “attack” sin and
sinners for keep doing what’s against God’s will. I am also a sinner and no better than anybody
else, but I believed in Jesus and He cleansed me with his blood at the cross,
so I repented; for that purpose He came into this world. For God so loved the world that
He gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish,
but have eternal life. (John 3.16) And He puts in my heart to talk
about my experiences to alert people of what’s coming if we do not seek Him. He
said: Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.
. .I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the father but
through Me (John 14. 1,6)
I am no one to judge anybody but when I read this I say to myself: Oh God, how many people do not know the
truth and will perish at the end. What can I do? He also said to His disciples: “The
harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore beseech the Lord of
the harvest to send workers into His harvest.” (Matthew 9. 37, 38) And I’m one of them. I had asked the Lord
since I was very young I wanted to be one of those workers and after seeking
how, for I am not that good in talking, I started writing. I had tried other
ways, but He guided me to this blog and puts things in my heart to talk about.
That is why I know that whatever I write comes straight from above. My source
is the Word of God and if I write something that’s a little out of line, my
editor tells me to delete.
I’ve heard people complain about how Christians “accuse,” in public,
others who have not repented to end up in condemnation. But we are only repeating
what the Word of God says. We are NOT
making it up. John the Baptist said it constantly to everyone around: “Repent,
for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” (Matthew 3.2) And he was so
brave that told Herod it wasn’t lawful for him to have the wife of his brother
( Matthew 14.4).
I have also heard Christian leaders
say we should not try to convince people by scaring them with the apocalyptic
truths; but everywhere in the Bible you read about people who said it bluntly
but some think of it “harshly”. Jonah cried out in Nineveh: “Yet
40 days and Nineveh will be overthrown.” (Jonah 3.4) and with that many
people believed. And have you ever heard something worse than what
John the Baptist said to some religious people who came to him for baptism?
(probably for presumption) “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee
from the wrath to come?” (Matthew 3.7)
The truth is that if we are not ready when our Lord comes (and He can
come any time He wants) we will not make the Kingdom of Heaven (if that’s what
we want, of course) so, if someone warns us, let’s be grateful.
Around 600 years before Christ, Nebuchadnezzar was the king of Babylon
who had come to Jerusalem to lay siege to it, and took some youngsters of the
royal family and nobles to Babylon among them was Daniel, the prophet. Daniel
had been given the gift of interpreting dreams (just like Joseph, son of Jacob
many generations before.) It was he who told the king that he would be driven
away from mankind and live in the wilderness with the beasts and that he would
eat grass like cattle, and his hair would grow like feathers, and his nails
like claws until he recognized that “the Most High is ruler over the realm of
mankind and bestows it on whomever He pleases. (Read Daniel chapter 4) Daniel
gave him an advice: ”break away now from your sins by doing righteousness and from your iniquities
by showing mercy to the poor in case there may be a prolonging of your
prosperities” (Daniel 4.27)
Daniel probably hesitated in saying that truth to the king, maybe it was
hard but he knew that would happen, and it did and Nebuchadnezzar came to his
senses and believed and God restored him completely. That is what we want for
everyone who listens to us, whether we are harsh or not, because we suffer when
people don’t want to listen. If they do, they would declare like the king did
after eating grass:
“Now
I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt and honor the King of heaven, for all His
works are true and His ways just, and He’s able to humble those who walk in
pride.” (Daniel 4. 37)
